The Great Refusal-Roger Becket

put forward as the image of “A Christian in Politics”—an image which turns out to coincide at point after point with the image of the Liberal in Politics—which I am calling in question. For that image is a sham, and a particularly vicious sham in that it is used as trading capital in the market place of politics.

It is all made quite clear in a quotation from the Minneapolis Star, which decorates the jacket of the book” . . . his strong religious convictions have been an unbeatable asset among church-going Minnesotans . . . his political foes . . . found— when they tangled with Youngdahl— that the voters looked upon their efforts as reflections not against Youngdahl but against religious convictions.”

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put forward as the image of “A Christian in Politics”—an image which turns out to coincide at point after point with the image of the Liberal in Politics—which I am calling in question. For that image is a sham, and a particularly vicious sham in that it is used as trading capital in the market place of politics.

It is all made quite clear in a quotation from the Minneapolis Star, which decorates the jacket of the book” . . . his strong religious convictions have been an unbeatable asset among church-going Minnesotans . . . his political foes . . . found— when they tangled with Youngdahl— that the voters looked upon their efforts as reflections not against Youngdahl but against religious convictions.”